Happy Winter Solstice

"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness

that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination,

a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable,

like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon,

bursting forth into unexpected glory."

~ Gary Zukav

Winter Solstice ~ Alcohol Ink on Yupo

 

"Of winter's lifeless world each tree


Now seems a perfect part;


Yet each one holds summer's secret


Deep down within its heart."

~ Charles G. Stater